Responses I Inquiries I Reactions, a solo art exhibition by Shanthi Kasiviswanathan a visual

 Responses I Inquiries I Reactions, a solo art exhibition by Shanthi Kasiviswanathan a visual

artist from Mumbai opens 

on 1st February at The Jehangir Art Gallery, Fort, Mumbai at 11am. The

exhibition dates are 1st February to 7th February 2022, timings 11 am – 7 pm.

A special music performance by vocalist Ms. Meena Jinturkar will take place on 5

th February at 5pm. Through this note Shanthi extends a warm welcome to all for her exhibition.

Shanthi’s second solo, is a culmination of work made during the pandemic.The events in her life and that of others during the pandemic, led her to examine her own life in relation to the larger canvas of life. She realised that her experiences in life resonated with others as well. Whilst personal, her experiences are also universal.

Jehangir Art Gallery

The last two years brought about a significant shift in her work. Being homebound for the most part, her medium of expression shifted from photography to drawing and painting.

This exhibition puts forward four distinct series, each reflecting different aspects of her recent development: a narrative on her parents in her drawings, nature’s revival in her sky paintings, power and control in the collaborative sculptural pieces and her thoughts and emotions through the wall series interventions.Before the pandemic, she was photographing the overlooked beauty of deteriorating walls of different cities which resulted in her first solo Enduring I Ephemeral at Artisan’s Gallery Mumbai. (https://www.mid-day.com/mumbaiguide/things-to-do/article/Concrete-as-canvas-21715199)

About the artist:

Shanthi Kasiviswanathan is a visual artist and photographer based in Mumbai, India. She switched from a corporate career to pursue her passion in visual arts at 40 and has been practicing since graduating from the Sir J.J. School of Fine Arts in 2015. Her work, a compelling invitation to see things differently is influenced by her own innate nature to question the status quo. Observation is key to her work and it can be seen in her photographic works, her drawings, her paintings and more recently her maiden foray into sculpture, in collaboration with fellow artists. You can see her work at www.shanthikasi.com

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

161-B, M.G. Road,

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

The progressive journey of the painter, Mr Ashok Dhivare, has been moving forward through a variety of forms and mediums like nature painting, abstract style and cityscape.

 As the changing forms of nature leave their reflections on a painter’s mind it begins to give shapes to them.  Really speaking, it is a just thought emerging in his consciousness; simultaneously, however, it becomes an inner conflict rooted in his mind.  A process to search for form in an object begins at the centre of an individual’s mind. This process is highly individualistic and deep but it is equally obscure.

 

The presence of an object in nature is stable as well as unstable and forward-moving; this in fact is an unending, ongoing process. It is the way of the world; in a way, it is the way the world behaves. ‘The Eternal’ is an exhibition of paintings meant to present this thought. It is a search for the eternal existence of the self in the brisk-paced happenings and the fast deterioration of human values taking place around us.

 

The progressive journey of the painter, Mr Ashok Dhivare, has been moving forward through a variety of forms and mediums like nature painting, abstract style and cityscape. The paintings in this exhibition belong to the category of ‘Nature painting.’ The artist has consciously used watercolours as a medium. 

 

The moisture of the mind’s sensitivity and its subtlety for the moments escaped is noticeable in them in addition to a feeling of being lost. 

The human images in these paintings are indistinct and unclear. The structures and leftover remains of constructions around them force us to search for the eternal. The use of time and space keeps haunting our minds as these paintings begin to overpower us by coming closer and establishing an uncanny relation with us. These paintings give a distressed call to the past and present of the fall and decay we experience inside us.

 

Raju Desale

From: 1^st to 7^th February 2022

“The Eternal”

An Exhibition of Watercolor Paintings

By well-known artist Ashok Namdeo Dhivare

 

 

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

161-B, M.G. Road,

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm